The Program Committee is pleased to announce that Rose Barrowcliffe will present this year’s Loris Williams Memorial Lecture at our upcoming Here We Are 2022 Conference.
Loris Williams is remembered for the path she forged for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the archival profession. She made a large impact in a short time because she brought her own experience as an Indigenous user of the archive to her career. Loris fought for the principal that access should not be part of the trauma that can result from archives. She campaigned for easy access for Stolen Generation families, higher employment of Indigenous people in archives and that archives be aware of the great joy and trauma that records can bring Indigenous people. Today, archives are going through a renaissance in regards to Indigenous rights. Loris’s work is seen as an exemplar, but Loris’s dreams for archives are far from being realised. In this Loris Williams Memorial lecture, Rose reflects on where we are now and how we as a profession measure up against contemporary understandings of Indigenous rights and Loris’s hopes for the archival profession.
Rose Barrowcliffe is Butchulla and a doctoral candidate at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Rose’s research has led her to work with libraries and archives around the country. In 2021, she won the Mander Jones award for her blog post which focussed archival practice through the lens of the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprising.
Find out more about this year’s Loris Williams Memorial Lecture here: https://bit.ly/3tnFSvl
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